Car-fender.



PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

J. H. DIXON. GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3. 1905'.

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CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed August 3. 1905. Serial No. 272,601.

To (all w/m'nt it Tim/y concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. DIXON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oar-Fenders,of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to fenders for horseless vehicles, as street-cars,automobiles, and the like, and is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, which form part of this specification, and in which likesymbols indicate like parts throughout the views The object of myinvention is to provide automatic fenders operable on a track or roadsurface in case a person is struck by a moving car and which will atother times remain out of contact of small obstructions in the road oron the track and to provide means of rescuing such person from being runover by said car.

Figure 1 is a side elevation in perspective, showing the device in itsnormal position mounted on the body of a street-car. Fig. 2 is a sideview as the mechanism is seen after action and as in service at or nearthe tracklevel.

Referring to the drawings, levers A, stops B, hooks C, rollers D,trackwheels 0 roller gear-wheels O and the shields O are disposed inpairs and duplicated on either side of the car. The apronframe,hereinafter referred to as controller B, is pivoted to and at the topsof the levers A and prevented from dropping on the fender O by itsengagement against stops B. The fender C is pivoted to and at thebottoms of levers A, as shown in Fig. 1, and in the same view is shownthe fenders C, having hooks C, on which said fender hangs on rollers Duntil it may have been released by the tilting of the levers A. Near theend of said fender C and mounted on the fender is shown track-wheels 0having gears enmesh with the gears of the roller C and which will causethe last-said member to rotate as the track-wheels turn on the ground,while the ratchet-pawls A prevent the levers A from folding backwarduntil said pawls have been released from their ratchets by hand. Thelever E and its connecting-cord E, which is fastened to the controllerat B is for use of the motorman to pull and drop the fender G intoserviceable position at the feet of any person standing in its path andin this same performance cause the controller B to withdraw fromcontacting with such person until he may have fallen into its apron.

The apron of the controller being so usual in street-car service andwhich may be of any desired pattern, it is not thought necessary todescribe its details and which really forms no part of my improvement,which I describe as follows:

My invention. consists in a pair of pivoted levers mounted opposite toeach other on either side of a car, and a controller-frame crossing thefront of said car and pivoted to said levers above their fulcrum, and anor mally suspended fender carried below said controller and pivoted tosaid levers below their fulcrum, which fender similarly crosses thefront of the car and is supposed to become active when the controllerhas moved backward and pushed it forward and off its supports by thetilting of the levers, which action will be effected and the fend erwill be permitted to drop its released end to the traclclevel, while themomentum of the car, it is calculated, will push the fender andcontroller beneath a person on the track and rescue such. person. frombeing run over by the car.

Operation: The momentum of the car will push the controller B against apersons shin or calf of the leg, which will hold said con troller, whilethe forward movement of the car will carry the fulcrum of the levers Apast their centers and in so doing will carry the fender-hooks C offtheir supports D and allow the track-wheels C to drop to the ground ortrack to turn on the ground as the car moves and which will cause theroller (7 to revolve in. the direction calculated to carry the personover said roller and into the apron of the controller.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is

l. A device of the class described having a controller pivotally mountedon levers above the fulcrum of the levers and a normally suspendedfender pivotally mounted on said levers below their fulcrum, for thepurpose and substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described having a controller pivotally mountedon levers above the fulcrum of said levers and normally supportedagainst stops and a fender disposed below said controller and mounted onsaid levers below their fulcrum and having trackwheels near the .ends ofsaid fender, for the purpose and susbtantially as described.

- mounted on said levers below their fulcrum and having track-wheelsnear the ends of said IO fender, for the purpose and substantially asdescribed.

i. A device of the class described having levers disposed. in pairs andpivotally mounted in brackets, a controller pivotally connected with oneend of said levers and a fen-- der pivotally connected with the oppositeend of said levers, for the purpose and substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereby sign my name, this 27th day of July, 1905,in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. DIXON.

Witnesses: I

S.L. RosEBURe, D. S. OROUTT.

